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Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
Cold Crematorium is the first English language edition of a lost memoir by Holocaust survivor József…
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A Great Love Story of a Terrible Time
by Rebecca Frankel
Rebecca Frankel's Into the Forest explores a little-known chapter of Holocaust history and…
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Remembering the Stories of the Holocaust
by The History Reader
January 27 marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945.…
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Bearing the Legacy of Topf and Sons
by Karen Bartlett
When Hartmut Topf was a small boy, he was captivated by puppets. On…
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The Family Behind the Holocaust Cremation Ovens
by Karen Bartlett
Since the summer of 1941, the Nazis had been mulling over how to…
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A Judenrat’s Financial Triumph Over the Gestapo
by Michael Bornstein and Debbie Bornstein Holinstat It was March 1941. Nearly a year had passed…
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Life Inside the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp
by David Cesarani Until the mass eviction of German Jews to Theresienstadt, the ghetto-camp had a…
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Elie Wiesel: Night
Preface to Night by Elie Wiesel If in my lifetime I was to write only one…
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Varian Fry: The Artist’s Oskar Schindler
by Kate Lord Brown Varian Fry and The House of Dreams The House of Dreams has…
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Shocking Paris: Soutine, Chagall, and the Outsiders of Montparnasse
by Stanley Meisler The mass migrations of European peoples to this country in the late 19th…
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Charles Sumner Witnesses the “Abraham Lincoln Magic”
by Stephen Puleo
In April 1865, at General Ulysses S. Grant’s Headquarters at City Point, Virginia,…
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The Wreck of USS Monitor
by David Gibbins
Almost half of the ships that I cover in my book, A History…
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America’s Most Clandestine Military Unit
Adam Gamal (a pseudonym created to keep his family safe from harm) served in the most…
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Feathered Fighters
by Tom Clavin
67 years ago, the U.S. Army Pigeon Service closed. You might think that…
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7 Books to Celebrate Women’s History Month
This Women’s History Month, we bring you seven titles highlighting the amazing feats of women, whether…
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Good With a Gun
by Tom Clavin
In the following excerpt from Follow Me to Hell, Tom Clavin introduces John…
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When Fascists Roamed America’s Cities
by Thomas Mullen
When we think about the World War II years, we tend to visualize…
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The Mayor and the Nazis
by Terry Golway
As hard as it is to imagine, there was a time in the…
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